-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The world 's fastest man , Usain Bolt , has escaped serious injury in a car crash in his native Jamaica which wrecked his high-speed sports car .

Jamaican flyer Bolt claimed 100 meters gold in Beijing in a new world record time .

The IAAF , the world governing body of athletics , gave graphic details of Bolt 's lucky escape on its official Web site www.iaaf.org .

The 22-year-old , who was driving his BMW M3 with two female passengers , lost control and went off a rain-soaked road .

The car ended up overturned in a ditch and Bolt and his passengers had to clamber out through a bed of thorns before being taken to hospital in Spanish Town , near Kingston , as a precaution .

Bolt was released after three hours , with his feet strapped with bandages , after undergoing a minor operation to remove embedded thorns from his foot . He told a local reporter : `` Me good man . Me all right , a just few cuts man , me all right . ''

As a result of the accident , Bolt will miss Saturday 's Jamaica International Invitational meeting and is expected to be sidelined for at least a week .

`` We will continue to monitor his progress over the next few days , '' Bolt 's agent Ricky Simms told reporters .

`` It 's too early to say if this will have any impact on his training and racing program in the next few weeks . ''

Bolt is also set to come to England in mid-May to run in a special 150 meters street race in Manchester .

A spokesman for the organizers told CNN that they were hopeful the sprint sensation would be fit to turn up . `` We are in constant contact with his management team and everything remains on track for him to come , '' said Norman Hart .

Bolt set world records in winning the 100 and 200 meters gold in the Beijing OIympics and claimed a third gold as Jamaica took the 4x100 meters relay .

He was given the BMW by his sponsors as reward for his incredible success which catapulted him to global stardom .

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Sprinter Usain Bolt fortunate to escape from car crash in his native Jamaica

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The world 's fastest man was taken to hospital after clambering from the wreck

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Bolt won three gold medals with his sensational displays in Beijing Olympics